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GUIDELINES FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSION

CALL FOR ARTICLES

The editorial board of Studies in English Language and Education (SiELE) welcomes
complete unpublished and original works on the following topics:
• teaching and learning English
• linguistics
• literature

Every manuscript submitted for publication in SiELE Journal will be checked for
plagiarism using Turnitin software. If the editors or peer reviewers detect plagiarism, the
author/s will be informed and requested to rewrite the text or provide any necessary
citations. The manuscript will not be eligible for review and publication if the Turnitin
report results in more than 20% of the similarity index.

If you have any questions, please contact the editorial assistant at: sielejournal@usk.ac.id

SiELE Author Guidelines:

Authors must strictly follow the submission guidelines of the journal. Submissions that
do not adhere to the guidelines provided will be REJECTED. Please submit your article
through the online submission of this journal.

Article Structure in General:

All articles must be written in English and should have an abstract between 200 to 250
words in length, followed by three to five keywords related to your article. Submissions
should be between 4000-8000 (including abstract, table(s), figure(s) and references) in
A4 size paper with margins as the following: top 1.18”, bottom 0.98”, right 0.98” and left
1.58”.

Title: the title should summarize your article’s main idea or ideas; the title should be
within 14 words maximum.

Author detail: include the name of the authors and their affiliation. Email is required for
the corresponding author only. SiELE requires that authorship be based on the following
four criteria:
• Substantial contributions to the idea or method of the research; or the collection,
analysis, or interpretation of data for the research; AND
• Drafting the article or revising it for important intellectual content; AND
• Final approval of the version to be submitted and published; AND
• Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the article (and research) in ensuring
that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are
appropriately investigated and resolved.
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Contributors who do not meet all four criteria for authorship above should be listed in
acknowledgment, not as authors. Therefore, contributors acquiring funding; general
supervision of a research group or general administrative support; and writing assistance,
technical editing, language editing, and proofreading do not qualify for authorship. To
prevent misconduct in authorship, SiELE only allows a maximum of seven authors for
one article starting in 2020. Each author’s contribution to the article must be stated in the
cover letter to be uploaded as a supplementary file into the OJS during article submission.
Download the cover letter template HERE.

Abstract: concisely describe the content and scope of your article and identify the
objective(s), its methodology, and its findings, conclusions, or intended results.

Introduction: State your work’s objectives and provide an adequate background,

avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. Explicitly state the
literature gap, which signifies your research’s significance.

When paraphrasing a source that is not your own, be sure to represent the author’s
information or opinions accurately and in your own words. Even when paraphrasing an
author’s work, you still must provide a citation to that work. When directly quoting an
author’s work, provide citation marks at the beginning till the end of the citation. The
page number must be noted beside the author’s name and year of publication.

Literature Review: include the current knowledge, substantive findings, and theoretical
and methodological contributions to your topic. A literature review surveys books,
scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or
theory and, by so doing, provides a description, summary, and critical evaluation of these
works in relation to the research problem being investigated.

Method: provide sufficient detail to allow your work to be reproduced. This includes
participants, location (if necessary), instrument(s), the technique of data collection, and
the technique of data analysis. A reference should indicate methods already published;
only relevant modifications should be described.

Results: present the results of your work. Use graphs and tables if appropriate, and
summarize your main findings in the text. Do NOT discuss the results or speculate as to
why something happened; that goes in the Discussion.

Discussion: highlight the most significant results, but do not repeat what has been written
in the Results section. The purpose of the discussion is to interpret and describe the
significance of your findings in light of what was already known about the research
problem being investigated and to explain any new understanding or insights that
emerged as a result of your study of the problem. A combined Results and Discussion
section is often appropriate.

Conclusion: provide the final words on the value of your analysis, research, or article.
Limitations of your study should be addressed. Recommendations for future research
related to your topic should also be mentioned.
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Acknowledgments (optional): give credit to funding bodies and departments that have
been of help during the project, for instance, by supporting it financially.

References: follow the APA 7 style.

All names/references mentioned in the text/article should be listed in the References

section. Names not mentioned in the text/article should be removed from the References
section.

Appendices (optional): if there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as
Appendix A, Appendix B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given
separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1), and
so on. Similarly, for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.

Further guidelines are provided below.

Headings and subheadings should be presented as follows (provide a space between the
headings and sub-headings):

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Subheading of the Content

1.1.1 Subheading of the content

Indent the first line of every paragraph by 1 cm.

For Tables, the title size is 12, and the content size is 10. Number the tables subsequently
throughout your article, and the title is written above the table (see previously published
issues, for example).

For Figures, the title size is 12, and the content size (if any) is 10. Number the figures
subsequently throughout your article, and the title is written below the figure (see
previously published issues, for example).

References:
The reference list should be arranged alphabetically following the guidelines of the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). For example:

1 author (Clarke, 2010)

2 authors (Lightbown & Spada, 1993)

3 authors (Reid et al., 1989)

Short quotations (less than 40 words):

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Deterding (1997, p. 54) said, “connected speech represents somewhat more natural data
than the rather artificial vowels derived from specially articulated citation speech”.

Long quotations (more than 40 words):

From the acoustic standpoint, even the sounds of words used by a speaker are one of the
forms of his or her identity. Accordingly, Jacobi (2009) explained that:

Along with communicating meaning, the acoustic signal is a product of physical

properties and changes, as well as, more generally all those factors that form the identity
of the speaker, such as social affiliation or family origin. The choice of words but also
the way they are realized differs from speaker to speaker, as well as within a speaker.
Even more, from an acoustic point of view, each utterance is unique. (Jacobi, 2009, p. 2)

Reference Manager

Before copyediting after article acceptance, the Editors will hyperlink the references with
corresponding in-text citations. All references and in-text citations should be in the APA
7th edition and present inside the article’s main body. References that are not cited should
be removed.

Template

For consistency and convenience, please use the TEMPLATE we already prepared for
the author(s).

Article Selection and Publication Process

1) Upon receipt of article submission, the Editor sends an email of confirmation to the
corresponding author within one and two weeks. If you fail to receive this confirmation,
your submission/email may be missed. The author should pay no submission charge at
this stage.

2) Peer review. We use a double-blind system for peer review; both reviewers’ and
authors’ identities remain anonymous. The article will be peer-reviewed by two
reviewers. The review process may take 3-4 months.

3) Notification of the result of the review is by email.

4) The authors revise the article according to the feedback and suggestions by reviewers.
Upon acceptance, a publication fee is to be paid by the author to the journal. The
publication fee is accessible at:
http://jurnal.usk.ac.id/SiELE/about/submissions#authorFees

5) After publication, the corresponding author will receive an email notification on the e-
journal in PDF that is available on the journal’s webpage and free of charge for download.
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6) It usually takes about 6 months to 1 year from submission to publication, with an

average of 7 months.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors must check off their submission’s compliance
with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not
adhere to these guidelines.
• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal
for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or LaTex document
file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics rather than
underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables
are placed within the text at the appropriate points rather than at the end.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the
work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that
allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship
and initial publication in this journal.
• Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-
exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to
an institutional repository or publish it in a book) with an acknowledgment of its
initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in
institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission
process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation
of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for
the stated purposes of this journal. They will not be made available for any other purpose
or party.

Author Fees
This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Processing Charges: 2000000.00 (IDR)

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Starting from September 2022 (Volume 9, Issue 3), Article Processing Charges (APC)
for Indonesian authors is IDR. 2,000,000 (two million rupiahs)
APCs for international authors is USD 160.00

Authors are required to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) as a part of the
publication process.

Payment can be made through bank transfer (for Indonesian authors) and PayPal (for
international authors)
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH EDUCATION
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITAS SYIAH KUALA
BANDA ACEH—ACEH, INDONESIA